There is finally an approved vaccine for Ebola

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/12/there-is-finally-an-approved-v.html

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[Brainspore]

At least that’s one less thing to kill people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Go science!

[docosc]

Wait till Andy Wakefield hears about this. I’m sure he will be very impressed.

[Papasan]

Ebola your days are numbered. Now if only we had a vaccine for Measles …

[stephen_schenck]

a vaccine for the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.

Is that … actually its formal name? Virus Disease? For serious?

ETA: Huh, apparently it is! I’ve always throught of it as Ebola hemmoragic fever, but apparently EVD is cool too.

[MadLibrarian]

Get you hence, Ebola!

[Garymon]

Nice explainer video about how the virus works and how this vaccine works:

[Purplecat]

Okay, time to get working on the other three.

[fuzzyfungus]

Surely he won’t swoop in until the measles/mumps/ebola combination vaccine enters the picture?

[Bobo]

I was going to say “Ok, so we prevent most of Ebola, but now they all have autism. Thanks Science!”

(disclaimer, this is pure snark, and I realize that Wakefield is the lowest discredited pos, who deserves to burn in a thousand hells as an agent of pestilence)